24 No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2018-04-15
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“So as you can see from that email, Danny's like, "No, we need to build an actual product." So they build an…”
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Focus
“Their focus was still, this is the important part, their focus was still on using math to relieve the congestion plaguing the…”
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People
“Only boring people are bored." That I also don't understand when people are like, "Oh, I'm bored." It's like you live in…”
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Persistence
“The main thing you have to do is to dedicate yourself to telling lies for a number of years and to spreading…”
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Capital
“They're going around and meeting with angels and venture capitalists, and they're raising money.”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: capital.
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